Willi Lausen

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Willi Lausen (born October 22, 1901 in Kiel , † April 18, 1972 in Beilstein ) was a German politician ( SPD ).

Willi Lausen was the son of a shipyard worker. After secondary school, he worked from 1921 to 1923 in the union public welfare organization . From 1917 on, Lausen was a member of the workers' youth and in an employee union, from 1920 a member of the SPD. In 1923 he was part of the first high school graduate course for workers at the Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium in Berlin-Neukölln, which was run by Fritz Karsen and later became the Karl Marx School , where he graduated in 1926. After graduating from high school, Lausen continued to work for the “Volksfürsorge” and was active in youth organizations close to the SPD.

In 1930 Lausen moved to Stuttgart and joined the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . During the war he became a soldier and served in Russia from 1943 to 1945. As district chairman of the Stuttgart SPD, he was a member of the state constitutional assembly of Württemberg-Baden in 1946.

Lausen was a member of the provisional parliament in 1946 and, from 1947, as successor to Erwin Schoettle in the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden , before resigning from his seat. Paul Hofstetter was his successor . In the first federal election in 1949 , Lausen ran for the SPD in the Ludwigsburg constituency and was directly elected to parliament, of which he remained a member until 1953. Lausen was then a member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg from 1952 to 1958 , before resigning his seat on May 30th. His successor was Eugen Betzler .

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  1. These biographical details are based on: Henriette Hättich (Ed.): Democracy needs democrats. Student funding as a socio-political task. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Student Support Department, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-89892-850-2 . ( Democracy needs democrats ), p. 30